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Best Ploughman Poems


Premium Member The Furrows of Life
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The weary ploughman shuffles
along the deserted bridle path,
his day-long work completed,
furrows wound around his piece of land,
just arable enough to provide his daily bread.

His dreary sh......

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Categories: ploughman, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Burns Night
...Each year, an evening bright as any star,
in song and verse retells the tale once more,
with homage paid to one man’s repertoire.
Humbling and uplifting, his thoughts restore 
our universal onene......

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© Peter Rees  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ploughman, anniversary, humanity, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Auld Lang Syne the Most Sung New Years Eve Song
...“Auld Lang Syne” - the most-sung New Year's Eve song

Courtesy Robert Burns
circa  (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796)
the National Bard,
Bard of Ayrshire
and the Ploughman Poet.

Two hundred si......

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Categories: ploughman, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



The Ploughman
...“The day is long the day is hot 
Heat radiates the air will this ever stop
Sweat blurs my vision my mouth is dry 
I look for salvation but not a cloud in the sky

I plough from sunrise to sunset......

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© Jon Jones  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ploughman, earth day, farm, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Burns' Night
...Each year, an evening bright as any star, 
with song and verse retells the tale once more,
with homage paid to one man's repertoire.
Humbling and uplifting, his thoughts restore
our universal one......

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© Peter Rees  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ploughman, anniversary, community, humanity, international,
Form: Rhyme
Langland's Piers the Ploughman Much Shrunk
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This time of trouble so torn by terror,
time of deep darkness and all-devouring death,
this time of woe, high wages and much wenching
is no time for pleasant pastorals and praises.
I wander we......

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Categories: ploughman, anti bullying,
Form: Alliteration



College- a Torment Camp
...-Subash Khanal

I have such a wish to write
‘Torment camp’
all over the walls of my college

Each professor
stands behind  the podium
and shares the sleeping tablet

It’s such an adversity
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Categories: ploughman, absence,
Form: Free verse
The Ploughman
...Ploughing 

The farmer has ploughed the land around the almond trees
 the earth is rust red I took up a handful it was lumpy, full
 of dead plants and still warm from the sun.
A breeze was blowi......

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Categories: ploughman, courage,
Form: Sonnet
Darfur
...Gazing regretfully on years gone by
They stumble across searching for a place to call home
Their lanky necks sending out murky tune.
Mutilated men in ominous attire!

Lonely hearts littering the......

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Categories: ploughman, war, children,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member For An Ox Can'T Ask
...An ox is a persistent ploughman
    he sets his shoulder to the task
  Not knowing what he's up against
    for no question can he ask

  Big machines can do his job
    in almost no time, even......

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Categories: ploughman, animal, change, technology, work,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Robert Burns 1759-1796
...His work is known around the Earth
This ploughman lad of lowly birth
He wooed and won the lassies braw
His Jean the fairest of them aw
He honoured such as mice and men
And friendship flo......

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Categories: ploughman, humanity, poems,
Form: Couplet
Poet of Scotland
...R-emember the poet of Scotland, 
O-n the twenty-fifth of January; 
B-ehold his written works, 
E-ach lyric is filled with glory.
R-emember the poet of Scotland who wrote in Scots language; 
T-he......

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Categories: ploughman, birthday,
Form: Acrostic

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry